Speed control for induction-motors.



F. W. MEYER.

SPEED CONTROL FOR INDUCTION MOTORS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20. i914.

1,262,824. Patented. Apr. 16,1918.

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FRIEDRICH W. MEYER, OF PIlliTSBUBGH, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB 'I'O WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

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Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

, Application filed June 20, 1914. Serial No. 848,363.

To all whom it my concern:

Be it known that I, FnmnnmriW. MEIER,

asubject of the Emperorrof Germany, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the cOHIIty f Allegheny. and State o'f Pennsylvania, have 1nvented. a new and useful Improvement in Speed .Controls for Induction-Motors, of

which the followin is ajspecifica'tion,

' Figure 1.is .a diagrammatic view of circuits 26 para'tively small currents. Referring to the' acco'm My invention re ates to methods of controlling the slpeed of induction motors andarly to the speedcontrol of large motors, such as those em loyed m drivmore particu ing' rolling mills and sim' ar apparatus,

wherein rectifiers are employed in conjunc-' panying drawing,

and a 'paratus embodying my. invention;

and Fig. 2 i'sa diagrammaticview of a mod1-- fication' of the circuits of Fig.1.

shown in Fig. 1,3 is an induction motor sup" fReferrin to the form-of my, invention plied "with energy from an alternating-current system 4-by suitable leads 5. ,The primary winding of the motor 3 is split mto two'portions, a inagnetizm winding 6 and 'a working wmdmg. 7.

. e Winding. 7. i arranged on-the-stator of themotor 3 as an 'ordinary three-phase delta winding and tion of the two win -ve'rtices of the delta t may be in line with the vertices' of the d ta .The relative loca is immaterial, the of the win 6 likewise the windingntli.

'of the w'indin '7 or the ma lieo posite g Y y The the mid-points of the sides thereo specific arrangement chosen 'is determined by winding: convenience-and not by operating considerations. The amount of current flowing thlOlfih the m etizing windings 6 I may be vari ;stats 8.. Current, after-trav by sui 1e adjustable rheothe working windin 7,.flows through t e primawindings o a transformer 9 and thence bac to. the system-e'if delta connections are employed, a s shown, or to a common point ifit 'Windin is desired to employ star connections. The seconda wlndings of the transformer 9 are.

adjustab connected to the anodes 10 of a.

'rectifyingdevice 11, preferably of the mercury vapor type. The current generated in 'the secondary member of the motor 3 is .taken off by suitable slip rings 12 and supplied to a rectifier13, preferably of'the vap01 are type. operated in series on a suitable constant-potential consumption circuit 14 by means of .a suitable compensating'winding 15.

The fact that the voltage across the mains 14 is held constant serves to hold the voltage acres the two rectifiers 11 and 13 constant.

Thus, if the voltage imposed upon one of.

said. rectifiers by the correspondin win g of the induction motor be raised, t e vo age across the other rectifier must bereduced in acomplementary sense, as the sum of the two rectifying voltages is constant. I use the .term complementary, inits well known meaning, as that quantity which must.

be added to a quantity to roduce a fixed and given third quantity. us, as the voltage across the rectifier 11- in increased, the voltage across the rectifier 13 is correspondingiy decreased and vice versa.-

aving described-the arrangement r the circuits in my control system, the operation is as follows: On-reducing, for instance, the controllin'gcurrent through the magnetizing windings, 6, by'means of the rheostat 8, the

field of-the motor will become weakened, and

the back electromotive force inducedin the 7 by the transformer actionbetween t e windings 6 .and 7 will-also be lowered. 'Since the voltage acrossthe winding The. rectifiers 11 and 13 are .7 and the primarymembers of the trans former '9 is constant, a reduction of the back i I electromotive force -in the winding? will increase the potential at the transformer 9,

and, concurrently, raise the potential across the terminals of the rectifier 11. Since the sumof the voltage across the rectifiers '11 and '13 is a constant, equal to the 'volta e of the system 14, 'an -increase'of the V0 tage.

across the rectifier 11 results he reduction of the voltage across the rectifier 13, resulting in a lowering of the electromotive force of thesecondary member of the motor 3. Accordingly, not quite so much energy will be transmitted by the secondary winding into the direct-current network. The difference in energy will be supplied from the rectifier 11. I

The following is a theoretical consideration of the speed changes which result from the adjustment of the component parts of my circuits, assuming a su p led system wherein'all elements are sing e phase, in order to avoid complication.

Let Y E represent the line voltage,

E t stator of the inductlon machine, E, the vol in the continuous-current networ E the voltage of the auxiliary rectifier,

E, the rotor voltage of the induction motorfi. Now, if. for sake of simplicity" we assume that the number ofrturns of the, machines rotor and stator are the same, that the ratio of transformation at the transformers is equal to 1, and, finally, that the losses, and the'small magnetizing components relative to the transformers, are of negligible magm- -tude, then, the stren h of the current in the main windings w' throughout be =J.

Thus, the stator field and the rotor field" neutralize each other, and the main stator winding is co uently, simply a ,compensating winding. 1 owever,suc exact equalization is not necessary as is desired in 'com- -.mutator'machir'ie's for the urpose'of achievmade ve ing good commutation, it in on the contrary, .suflici'ent, in. this case, of the wind-" ings to result in more or less correct average equalization. y

However, as pointedout, vthere is a controlling or magnetizing-current winding provided for the'stator the currents of which may be regulated by a transformer, or, since the magnetizin current may here easily be sma l, by'a resistance, so that'it malbea justedatwill."

' ile I will denote'by i I themagnetizing current as present un-' I Y der changing, circumstances, there is 'fiux lines in, the machine when regulation is taking place. And finally:

n, the normal synchronous I number of revolutions or speed, and

n the speed as prevailing during regulation j It will be plain that the magnetizing e active magnetizing voltage at the stator voltage E fwill then be dependent 'upon the corresponding magnetizing current 2' and-the re ation N 'L r;- +t holds good.

' However, there is, furthermore, with more or less approximation-the relation where due account is takenof the speed drop as caused by the counter electromotive force at the rotor. Now, since the total of the rectifier voltages, on the one hand, is equal to the pressure in the continuous current network, thus:

while, on the other hand, the total ofthe stator voltage and auxiliary rectifier electromotive'force equals the pressure at the three-phase current line E,,+E,=E,

thus,

and the pressure of the continuous current network is now:

4 'E=100V, then, when I 59 the value v 100-200+200 1 T while, for

there results now It will thus be noticed that we are able to make the regulation continuous from one half synchronous speed up to normal syn-.

chr'onism. A further reduction of the magnetizing current' would be of no use, because, undensuch conditions, the voltage Ehat the auxiliary rectifier would be higher than pressure E, of the continuous current line, and rectifier G would have to charge the voltage in inverse 'ratio to the current, which would not be feasible; that is to say, the induction motors speed can, in this case, not readily be brought beyond synchronism.

It is apparent that it would be practicable to regulate the speed of the motor 3 substantially to synchronism, since the entire voltage of the system-14 may be supplied by the rectifier 11 and, in addition, the back electromotive force of the arc in the rectifier 13, whereby the eleotromotive force across the slip rings 12 would be substantially zero.

The more extensive the range of speed regulation, the higher should be the voltage of the system 14: with respect to line voltage,

or else suitable changes should be made in The natural conthe transforming device. sequence also is that, with a greater range of speed control, it will be necessary to have a greater range of adjustment in the magnetizing current. Since it is quite difficult to obtain a control of the speed from stand still to synchronism by the above described means, I find that it is a good plan to start the motor 3by means of any suitable starter of the auto transformer type or otherwise. I have found the ballast-wire type of starter to be especially successful for this character of, work. In this device, the resistance element is of some material having a high posit1ve temperature resistance co-efficlent such,

- for example, as iron, inclosed in inert atmosphere, such, for example, as hydrogen.

A resistance element of this description will be highly heated at first by the heavy starting current and will oppose considerable resistance to the fiow thereof, but the subsequent lowering of the resistance, due to shown in Fig. 2, "16; is an induction motor.

- former 18 is connected in series with the the falling off of the current taken by the motor, will soon cause its effect to be negligible. I consider the use of the auto starter as no part of my present invention and hence do not illustrate the same in detail. g V

Referring to the form of my invention of ordinary construction provided with'a primary. winding 17 of the three-phase, delta type. The primary winding of a transprimary winding 17, and the current flowing therethrough is the working current for the machine. The transformer -18 supplies "a rectifier 19," connected in series with arecti fier 20 supplied from the secondary member of themotor 16, the sum ofthevoltages acrossthe two rectifiers being maintained constant; by a connection to a constant p.0- tential direct-currentsupply and consumption current 21.

" Adjustable auto transformers 2 2 are connected to the alternating-current supply system 23 and. shunted across the primary windings 17 sothat a variable, independof energy absorbed in the Working portion ently controlled magnetizini current may be superposed thereupon. y the use of phase-varying devices and by the adjustable feature of the auto transformers, the mag netizing current may be given any desired amount and any desired phase angle with respect to the working current whichflows through the primary windings 17 and through the transformer 18. Not only does this system of connection give a more flexible adjustment of the power factor and speed of the induction motor than the system of Fig. 1 but it is also'more economical in its use of power, because the ohmic loss in the resistance members 8 is avoided.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination wit-h an induction motor provided with a double primary winding, one portion of which is adapted to furnish magnetizing current and the other portion of which is adapted to furnish working current, of means for controlling the amount of excitation furnished by themagnetizing winding, means for controlling the amount of the primary winding, and complementary means for controlling the amount of energy generated in the secondary member, where- -by the speed of the induction motor may be controlled.

2. The combination withan induction motor provided with two primary windings, of means for dynamically interlinking the cir cuit of one of said windings with a directcurrent circuit, whereby only energy cur- 10c rent may flow in said winding, whereby all magnetizing -current demanded by saidmotor is caused to flow in the other of said primary windings. V

' 3. The combination with an induction motor provided with a magnetizing winding independent of the primary working winding, of a device arranged to absorb energy from the current of said primary working winding, a device arranged to absorb energy .from the secondary member'of the inductionmotor, a constant-potential consumption circuit, and means for causing said en ergy absorbing devices to operate in series on said consumption circuit.

' 4, The combination with an induction inqtor, of a device for absorbing energy from the primary circuit thereof and a device for absorbing energy from the secondary member thereof, and means for causing said enorgy-absorbing means to be supplementary to each other in theiraction.

. 5. The combination with an induction motor provided with mutually supplementary energy-absorbing. devices in its-primary and the primary working winding, a rectifying device connected in series relation with the secondary wlndmg, and connections for causing said rectifying devices to operate in series with each other on their direct-current sides on said constant-potential load circuit.

7. The combination with an induction motor provided with a magnetizing winding in addition to a primary working winding, of a rectifying device connected in series relation wit-h the,primary Working winding, a rectifying device connected in series relationwith the secondary winding, a constantpotential consumption circuit, and means for causing said rectlf ing devices to operate in series with each 0t er on their direct cuirent sides on said consumption circuit.

8. The combination with an induction motor provided with means whereby the primary working current may be controlled independently of the magnetizing current, of means for controlling the amount of energy absorbed in the working portion of the primary winding, and complementary means for controlling the amount of energy generated in the secondary member, whereby the speed of the induction motor may be controlled. r

9. The om ination with an induction motor providedwith means whereby the primary working current may be controlled independently of the" magnetizing current, of a device arranged to absorb energy from the current of said-primary working winding, :1

device arranged to absorb energy from the.

secondary member of the induction motor, a constant-potential consumption circuit, and means for causing aid energy-absorbing devices to operate in series on said consumption circult.

10. The combination with an' induction rimary windings motor provided with two and with a secondary win ing, of means for dynamically interlinking the circuit of one of said windings with a direct-currentconsumptioncircuit of substantially constant potential, and means for dynamically interinking the circuit of said secondary winding with said consumptlon circuit in series relation with said first named dynamic in- FRIEDRICH W. MEYER.

Witnesses:

D. C. D'Avrs, B. B.-HINES. 

